Military career: Starting with a recruitment letter

Chapter 307 Entering the Ambush Zone, Enemies on All Sides

Around 9:30 a.m. on the 8th.

The people who had studied and received support from the Academy of Sciences, as well as the reconnaissance company and sniper squad, gradually returned to the edge of Xiaocheng and joined up with the main force.

Chen Mo, who was fast asleep, was also woken up by Cheng Dong. Facing this enemy, few of the officers in the entire battalion could remain as calm as Xiucai.

With a formidable enemy at hand, he was still able to sleep soundly.

"What's wrong? Lao Man and the others are back?" Chen Mo climbed out of his sleeping bag and rubbed his sore eyes.

"Yeah, just got back. Quite a few of the reconnaissance and sniper teams were captured by the enemy, but thankfully, our men stayed outside the exercise area overnight, so the 188th Division didn't have a chance to lay minefields or set traps on a large scale. At least we got some results."

Cheng Dong responded quickly.

Chen Mo sat there for a while, then shook his head at the company commander's words about what he had gained.

He got up and walked towards the command tent.

The reason he sent reconnaissance and sniper teams to the battlefield ahead of time was that he was initially worried that the 188th Division might cause trouble.

But ever since he discovered that the punctuation marks on the star map were constantly disappearing, Chen Mo knew that he had underestimated the command ability of a division commander.

In the past, when fighting the 188th Division and the 61st Division, one battle was fought without command, and the other was fought with the main force being tied down by other divisions. As a result, in both battles, the division-level firepower did not play a very strong role in combat.

Psychologically, there is a lack of understanding of the capabilities of a teacher.

We underestimated our opponent.

Once Chen Mo discovered that his opponent had begun to cut off radar and abandon radio communications, he knew that all his previous arrangements had been in vain.

Commander Tang Haodong was far more difficult to deal with than he had imagined.

"Hello, Battalion Commander!!"

Chen Mo lifted the curtain and entered the command tent. Man Xuexi and the officers of the reconnaissance company leading the team stood at attention and saluted!
Lao Man seemed to be in good spirits, probably having a great time. He was still wearing casual clothes and looked very energetic.

Meanwhile, the reconnaissance company members had changed back into their military uniforms, all looking disheveled and dirty. They had probably been lying in wait at night, engaging in numerous battles of wits and courage with the enemy, carrying out hunting and counter-hunting operations.

"Thank you everyone."

After returning the greeting, Chen Mo walked to the conference table, picked up his water glass, took a sip of strong tea, and turned to ask, "If I'm not mistaken..."

"Weren't many of the main roads damaged or blocked on your way back?"

"Yes!"

Guo Dongqi, the platoon leader of the reconnaissance company, straightened his chest and responded.

He was originally the second platoon leader. After the first platoon leader, Wang Yanjun, was transferred to the engineering company as the company commander, Lao Guo was transferred to the first platoon as the platoon leader.

Guo Dongqi was also in charge of leading the team for this operation.

Upon hearing the battalion commander's question, Platoon Leader Guo quickly walked to a distance, dragged over the conference board, and then took out a map and pasted it on the board.

"Battalion Commander, on our way back, we specifically scouted the nearest routes. Four of the main roads leading to the Stone Statue Target Range were either completely crushed, leaving deep trenches more than ten meters wide, or blocked by a large number of trailers loaded with abandoned tanks."

"All that's left for us is one main road."

"hehe!"

Chen Mo crossed his arms, stared at the map for a while, and laughed, "That's not bad. At least they left us a way out and didn't wipe us out completely."

Done.

Chen Mo's expression suddenly turned serious: "Order!"

Swish!
Everyone present stood at attention, chests out.

"Notify all soldiers in the battalion to take a fifteen-minute rest. After the rest period, proceed immediately to the stone statue."

"Comrades, the enemy has gone to great lengths to dig a pit for us. If we don't go and try, it would make us look cowardly."

"It's just a strategic assault division. It's not like we haven't fought them before. We still managed to take down the command post of the Northern Class A Motorized Infantry Division, didn't we?"

"There's nothing to say, we're just targeting their main divisional force."

"Pass the word down, we'll depart in fifteen minutes."

"Staff, electronic warfare units, get ready. The military region wants to see a system-on-system confrontation, so let's test Commander Tang's main force first and see if it can stop us."

"Follow the order."

"Yes!"

Everyone responded in unison.

Immediately, whistles signaling assembly and orders to move out were issued continuously around the rest camp.

Tents and sleeping bags were also gradually dismantled by the logistics personnel.

The dry toilets were filled in.

All tanks underwent pre-battle inspections.

Fifteen minutes later.

All tanks in the entire battalion were activated.

As soon as Chen Mo sat down in the command vehicle, more than a dozen large vehicle-mounted drones from the reconnaissance company launched their engines with a series of "whoosh" sounds.

"The entire mechanized infantry company is ready!"

"Tank company ready!"

"The entire reconnaissance company is ready!"

"Air defense company, all personnel are ready!"

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One after another, the ready-to-go instructions were reported to the information command center.

After all the companies finished reporting, Chen Mo gave the order: "Move out!"

"Target: Stone Statue Target Range, take Route Two."

"Army aviation unit, advance 20 kilometers and conduct area reconnaissance."

"Ground-based lead vehicles lead the way, guiding the convoy forward."

"Other companies will advance in groups according to the night training schedule. The mobile team will deploy four armored vehicles and one infantry platoon on each flank for mobile escort."

"Activate all radars and conduct operations targeting all targets within a 150-kilometer radius."

"Air defense missile company and long-range rocket artillery company enter Level 1 wartime status, advance with the team, and increase the distance between them."

"The entire battalion is implementing the third set of communication codes, which are dynamically changed every hour."

"Attention all personnel, strictly adhere to wartime standards."

"action!"

With a rumble, the tank formation, after adjustments, moved forward under the guidance of ground jeeps.

Hundreds of armored vehicles were deployed.

The demonstration battalion's mobile formation is not complicated; it's simply an armored unit entering the battlefield in a standard defensive formation.

Ground infantry ensures the safety of the entire battalion's heavy equipment advance, maintaining a 300-meter cross-section for maneuver on both sides, while armed helicopters further extend their range in the air, expanding the denial space and conducting anti-maneuver ambushes.

To put it bluntly, it's what's known as a three-dimensional air-ground offensive.

After traveling for half an hour, the drone had already flown to the edge of the target range.

The helicopters hovered for a long time, and the radar kept expanding its search range, but it still could not detect any trace of the enemy.

"Scholar, it seems that the 188th Division has thoroughly learned from the failure of the 7th Brigade. The enemy is not giving us any opportunity for electronic warfare."

"We couldn't detect any enemy signal sources at all, including drones flying around the edge of the battlefield several times, infrared reconnaissance, and electronic signal monitoring, but we still couldn't find any trace of the enemy."

"Should we continue exploring?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Mo...

He waved his hand without responding.

Logically speaking, it's unusual that the opponent only left him one main path and there was no ambush, right?
However, if we're talking about an ambush, infrared reconnaissance, drone reconnaissance, plus electromagnetic signal monitoring, a multi-layered and complementary system, they could find even a fly flying by.

How could we possibly hide it from these methods?
Chen Mo was a little worried. To be honest, in the modern industrial and information age, the difficulty for one army to ambush another is extremely high.

Although Shanxi Province has rugged terrain, if they wanted to ambush the demonstration battalion, the enemy would have to send at least two main regiments, right?
The two regiments, numbering in the thousands, are now deserted; you can't even see a bird's feather, let alone a person.

Could it be that the other side has really abandoned the outer perimeter of the battlefield and intends to lure the enemy deeper into their territory for an encounter battle?

Not too possible.

"Order the drones to descend to a lower altitude and carefully search the perimeter. I don't believe that the 188th Division's vigorous elimination of our reconnaissance soldiers this morning was without any purpose."

"Yes!"

Wang Jianbin nodded and immediately issued the order to the reconnaissance company.

Chen Mo's analysis is correct; Tang Haodong will definitely not give up the opportunity to intercept from the outside.

Meanwhile, the armored regiment of the 188th Division had already set up an ambush line extending 20 kilometers in the area where their drones were roaming.

The main force of the tank regiment was also on the front line of the battlefield. They shut down their tanks, reduced heat sources, and hid in a low-lying area, waiting for the demonstration battalion to arrive.

The rear howitzer regiment and three missile battalions had also set up their artillery positions.

A dozen kilometers behind the First Tank Regiment, the main force of the Second Regiment was also preparing for battle.

It can be said that the 188th Division has blocked the road to the Shixiang firing range. As soon as the demonstration battalion enters the 20-kilometer blocking line and advances halfway, the entire division will launch a fierce attack.

By then.

Enemy fire was coming from all sides. Let alone a battalion, even the main force of a division would probably be completely trapped.

Tang Haodong has many tricks up his sleeve to become the commander of the assault division. His arrangement serves two purposes: first, to completely wear down the demonstration battalion; and second, because without radar, radio, or radio waves, command would be too inconvenient.

He could only resort to this whale-fall tactic, treating division-level units as tiger sharks and battalion-level units as whales, which was quite a high regard for the informationized battalion led by Chen Mo.

As for the demonstration battalion's drones, even though they were right at the edge of the stone statue, they still couldn't see any trace of the enemy's ambush.

That's because Commander Tang had already made preparations.

After completely eliminating the scouts of the demonstration battalion at dawn, the main force of the armored regiment dug hundreds of ambush pits on both sides of the main road at the edge of the stone statue.

There was a mobile unit hidden approximately every 350 meters.

That's right!

A mere three or four hundred meters is a distance that a large drone can cover in the blink of an eye. The entire armored regiment, along with part of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment and the division's reconnaissance battalion, were hiding here.

In order to lure the information battalion into a trap, the people hid in the pit, shut down all communications, prevented exposure of the electromagnetic spectrum, and maintained absolute silence.

The division headquarters ordered that they could only climb out of the ditch upon hearing the tank regiment's signal flare.

Launch an attack.

Before this, all the soldiers had to hold their bladders and bowels. These people collected all the military water bottles in the division and filled them with cold water to physically isolate themselves from heat sources and fundamentally avoid infrared radiation.

By helping each other, the surface of the ambush pit was camouflaged. Unless it was an experienced scout passing by, the only way to conduct a range of reconnaissance was by drone.

It would be impossible to find these pits.

11 points.

The main force of the demonstration battalion, which had been maneuvering for two hours, had now arrived at the edge of the stone statue firing range.

Without orders from the battalion commander, the helicopter squadron and drone reconnaissance teams remained lingering nearby without venturing into the exercise area.

Now, with the arrival of the main force.

For two hours, they found no trace of the enemy, not even a scout.

This is too weird.

Seeing that all of his own ground guidance vehicles had rushed into the exercise area on the corresponding map, Chen Mo, who had been thinking of countermeasures, felt a sudden panic inexplicably.

"The entire battalion shall halt all advance and await further orders!!!"

Realizing something was wrong, Chen Mo immediately grabbed the walkie-talkie and gave the order.

Rumble.

The mobile tank formation suddenly came to a stop.

The vast training ground was deathly silent except for the roar of the tanks.

It was so quiet it was unsettling.

"Still no sign of the enemy?"

“No, we can’t detect any signal source.” Wang Jianbin shook his head. Coming from a family of archers, he also realized that something was wrong.

Such a large unit as the Strategic Assault Division was allowed to enter the exercise area without any reconnaissance personnel along the way.

This doesn't make sense.

Upon hearing this, Chen Mo pushed open the rear door of the command vehicle, got out, and looked around.

Wang Jianbin got out of the car right away: "Scholar, something's wrong. We're probably in big trouble."

"Yes."

Chen Mo frowned, his fingers unconsciously tapping on the command vehicle, his eyes constantly scanning the surroundings as he said, “The Art of War, Chapter 15: ‘Therefore, the skillful maneuvering of the enemy is to shape him, and the enemy will surely follow; to give him something, and the enemy will surely take it; to move him with profit, and to wait for him with troops,’ I’m afraid that’s our situation.”

"You mean to say that what we've seen all along is an illusion, a tactic used by the enemy to lure us in?"

Wang Jianbin inquired.

"Otherwise what?" Chen Mo smiled. "We haven't seen any unusual movements from the enemy along the way. How could the commander of a commando division make such a big oversight?"

"They deliberately didn't set up any scouts for us to discover, creating the illusion of a decisive battle to lure us into probing forward."

"If I'm not mistaken, we should already be in an ambush zone, or even have been in their ambush zone for a long time."

"Otherwise, it's really hard to explain why we haven't seen any reconnaissance personnel from the 188th Division along the way. With their manpower, sending out a thousand people would be enough for reconnaissance. There are only two possibilities for why they haven't come out: either we just haven't discovered them, or they haven't been using radio communication."

"One reason is that we've already fallen into their trap."

"What should I do?"

Wang Jianbin was not a real commander after all; he was just a technician. When he heard that his side had entered the enemy's ambush zone, he immediately panicked.

"Heh, what to do? Let's help the assault division and give them some more firepower."

"Old Zheng!"

"To!"

Firepower staff officer Zheng Xiaolong quickly got out of the car next to him and ran to Chen Mo to stand still.

"Go, notify the infantry to set up a horizontal blocking line from my position, 0.8 kilometers southeast of this strategic location."

"Arrange three groups of combat personnel to remain within the blocking line to provide support and block the enemy at any time. Each group consists of 22 combat personnel. Each group is equipped with a heavy machine gun, an anti-materiel grenade launcher, and four RPG launchers. Each position is 120 meters apart. Each group also has one infantry fighting vehicle and two Type 85 tanks."

"At the same time, two mechanized infantry squads were selected and divided into six combat teams to follow the tanks."

"Arrange another tactical team to outflank the blocking position and be responsible for long-range sniping. If necessary, they can launch smoke grenades to cover the squad's assault operations."

"Oh, right, place one Type 90 35mm anti-aircraft gun on the blocking line, with the firing platform level. Once the enemy is spotted attacking from the rear, fire in long bursts without asking for permission to cover the main force in front."

".yes!"

The fire support staff was startled when he heard that the anti-aircraft gun platform had been leveled.

35mm! This isn't a heavy machine gun, it's a cannon, used to shoot down low- and medium-altitude helicopters and drones.

Once leveled, the Type 90 anti-aircraft gun, with its power, can engage enemies with motorized infantry and mechanized infantry.

Even if several thousand people come, they can't withstand the strafing of a single anti-aircraft gun, right?
Is it really okay to play like this?
However, the fire support staff officer was not familiar with the battalion commander and did not dare to ask too many questions; he was only responsible for issuing orders.

Wang Jianbin, who was standing next to him, was also startled.

"Scholar, you've laid the anti-aircraft gun flat. Aren't you afraid the military commander will beat you up after the war is over?"

"What's the difference between this and firing a cannon into a crowd?"

"We'll have to wait until the war is over before we can talk about that."

Chen Mo waved his hand: "Besides, there might not be any enemies behind us. The anti-aircraft guns are to prevent a surprise attack by the helicopter squadron."

Isn't your 188th Division awesome?
Didn't we not turn on communication?
Isn't it like crippling yourself, then you won't need radar or drones?

Let's see who this ambush is targeting and how they contacted your command.

A cold glint flashed in Chen Mo's eyes. Although he was not experienced in combat, he knew the 188th Division well, and that they were good at hiding their troops and launching surprise attacks.

Along the way, there was no terrain where you could hide your tanks. So, with a group of mechanized infantry, we first passed the blocking line with 90mm anti-aircraft guns before we even thought about encirclement.

When it comes to serious matters, Chen Mo has always been ruthless, showing no mercy to even his closest relatives.

After getting back onto the command vehicle.

Chen Mo's eyes were dangerous, his whole demeanor killing Tengteng. He grabbed the radio handheld device: "Order, ground guidance vehicle return to the unit, engineer mine-clearing vehicle to take over and clear the way."

"Order: The attack helicopter detachment will conduct an air assault into the battlefield."

"Order: Disperse the drones and enter the battlefield."

"Comrades, the time for the decisive battle has come. Remember one thing: only a wounded enemy is a good opponent. I don't want prisoners, and I don't want the war to destabilize the rear."

"assault!"

"kill!"

Rumble.

The demonstration battalion stormed into the firing range in an assault formation.

The drone quickly flew overhead and soon spotted over a hundred tanks from the Tank Regiment, lying prone on the ground, only ten kilometers away from their main force.

Boom!
Boom!
Boom!
The tank regiment spotted enemy drones in mid-air. Instead of attacking the fast-flying aircraft, they fired signal flares into the sky.

at the same time.

The strategic assault division's radar and radio suddenly switched on, and drones behind them began launching.

Hundreds of Type 96A tanks from the 1st Tank Regiment started up.

The tank group moved slowly, then accelerated to a half-speed assault, heading straight for the main force of the demonstration battalion.

drop!drop!drop!
On the demonstration battalion's side, the radar received an early warning, and on the green screen, countless dots of light moved toward their own side, while the drones transmitted the enemy's coordinates back.

The Wild Dog combat system calculates the movement coordinates, distance, and firing parameters in the first instance.

"Howitzer company, long-range rocket artillery company, prepare! Don't worry about ammunition! Target: enemy tank group! Full firepower coverage! Fire!"

"Artillery company received!"

"Rocket launcher received!"

As the order was given, the two companies that were maneuvering suddenly stopped.

The main force reduced its speed in sync, and all artillery vehicles were dispersed across a wide area in the depth of the enemy lines.

Temporary artillery positions were set up.

The hydraulic lifting pump of the camouflage missile vehicle quickly raises the vehicle, and the metal cylinders extending from the four corners of the vehicle's launch box support the ground, stabilizing the impact of the reaction force on the horizontal positioning of the missile vehicle during the firing process.

But at this moment, a sudden change occurred.

Just as the main force of the demonstration battalion had reduced its momentum, its own drones detected more than 100 tanks and nearly 300 armored vehicles behind the 1st Tank Regiment, which had already started moving.

A torrent surged forward, following closely behind.

Moreover, behind the second wave of main forces, an artillery regiment and three missile battalions of the 188th Division were already on high alert.

Meanwhile, the drones and radar of the 188th Division also detected the location of the demonstration battalion.

The atmosphere of a major battle was immediately heightened to its peak.

But what terrified the demonstration battalion even more was that before their artillery vehicles had even come to a complete stop, countless mechanized infantrymen suddenly appeared from behind and began firing individual rocket launchers from hundreds of meters away.

Boom boom boom.
The entire battlefield was set ablaze.

It was only then that Chen Mo realized the arrangements made by Commander Tang of the 188th Division.
This is like opening a trap, waiting for your side to step into the encirclement before activating radar, radio, and drones.

Taking advantage of these advantages, they mobilized all their main forces to launch an attack from all sides, leaving themselves no chance to breathe.

With the war situation urgent and intelligence pouring in, the enemy assumed that the demonstration battalion had neither the time nor the opportunity to conduct any electromagnetic interference.

Faced with the enemy's siege, they could only struggle to hold on.

This arrangement.

Enough!

That's incredibly patient!

(End of this chapter)